Chaired a hearing. Senator rounds good morning. The subcommittee on superfund Waste Management oversight is meeting today to conduct a hearing entitled oversight of the u. S. Environmental protection agencys Superfund Program. We will hear testimony from witnesses with involvement in cleaning up superfund sites. They will discuss their expenses in working with the epa, state government, and local committees to clean up these sites as well as offer suggestions on how cleanups can be completed quicker and more efficiently while best utilizing taxpayer dollars. Since 1980, the comprehensive environmental sponsor of an Liability Act has been a cornerstone of our hazard Waste Management program. Superfund was enacted by congress to give the federal Government Authority to clean up contaminated and Hazardous Waste sites and is fun to oil spills and natural disasters. The program created a trust fund that is dedicated to cleaning up site and gives the agency to work with and responsible parti
Just in from the National Hurricane center that mark was referring to. Winds still 75 miles per hour, still category 1 storm, has its eyes on the st. Marks area in the big bend of florida. Theres a lot of Nature Preserve in here, and few members where this track may go. That wouldnt be so bad, although obviously, there will be inland flooding that comes from this. That track comes up the coastline though and almost undoubtedly comes just near charleston and myrtle beach before it comes off of hatteras and enters our part of the world. This storm would have in this position in new england for Labor Day Weekend in a few minutes. Vanessa folks along floridas panhandle are preparing for hurricane hermine. Mark residents are securing their homes and boats right now. They havent had a hurricane hit the state in 11 years, as jeff deal reports from the coast near tallahassee, people are not taking any chances. The reporter looking out over the gulf of mexico, as hermine headed toward the coast
Miles per hour. Still getting closer to us. We are seeing wind gusts up to the eight Miles Per Hour on nantucket. This is still a powerful storm. But still pretty isolated across the cape in the islands. Take a look. Hermine sitting 200 miles offshore at the present time. We have seen rain bands filing end, but they have been confined to the cape and the islands. We have tropical warnings and for good reason. 40th in the vineyard, 41 Miles Per Hour in nantucket. We will see these 40, 50, even higher Miles Per Hour in the afternoon and evening. The farther west you go, notice how the winds back off because you are getting further away from the center of the storm. The biggest action out in the ocean. 12foot seas. As you go southward, 20 foot. The rip current risk continues. Notice these bands pivoting offshore as they do. This one off southwest nantucket may try to hold together and ring decent rain to the cape. Otherwise, the clouds are thinning out a bit. Eventually we will see some o
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